especiall grace certain knowledge and mere močon HAVE given and graunted and by these presents for us our heires and Sucessors DOE give and graunt unto the Mayor Comonalty and Cittizens of London Governors of the Possessions Revenues and Goods of the Hospitalls of Edward King of England the Sixth of Christ Bridewell and Saint Thomas the Apostle and theire Successors the yearely sume or penčon of one Thousand pounds per anñm of lawfull money of England To be paid to the Treasurer of Christs Hospitall for the tyme being To HAVE AND TO HOLD unto them the said Governors and theire Successors from the Feast of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist last past before the date of these presents for and during the terme of seaven yeares from thenceforth next ensueing and fully to be compleate and ended To bee paid quaterly at the four most usual feasts or dayes of payment in the yeare that is to say att the Feasts of Saint Michell the Archangell the Birth of our Lord Christ the Annunciation of the blessed Virgin Mary and the Nativity of Saint John Baptist by even and equall porcons during the saide terme att our Receipt of Exchequer And to bee issueing and payable out of any the Treasure of us our heires and Sucessors which att any tyme dureing the said terme shall bee found remayning in our Receipt there by the hands of our Treasurer Undertreasurer Chamberlaynes and other the Officers and Ministers of the Exchequer for the tyme being The first quaterly payment thereof to begin and to bee made upon the feast of Saint Michaell Tharchangell which shall bee in the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred seventy and three AND OUR WILL IS and by these presents for us our heires and successors WEE DOE Require and comand the Treasurer Chancellor and Undertreasurer Chamberlaynes and Barons of the Exchequer and all other the Officers and Ministers of us our heires and successors in the said Exchequer for the tyme being that they cause due and punctuall payment to bee made of the said annuity or yearely Penčon of one Thousand pounds per anñm under the said Treasurer of Christs Hospitall for the tyme being all the tymes and place and dureing the terme aforesaid and according to the intent and meaning of these presents without staying for any further or other warrant and for soe doeing these presents or the Inrollement thereof together with the Receipt of Acquittaunce of the said Treasurer of Christs Hospitall for the tyme being purporting the payment and receipt of the said penčon or any part thereof shall bee unto them and every of them from tyme to tyme soe paying the same for soe much thereof as they shall soe pay a sufficient warrant and discharge Neverthelesse our true intent and meaneing is AND WE DOE hereby declare that this our present graunt of the yearely penčon of one Thousand pounds per anñm dureing the said terme of seven yeares is made for the intent and to the ends and purposes following That is to say To the intent that the said Governors of Christs Hospitall and theire successors may bee thereby enabled to provide And shall

alsoe bee obliged to provide and ordaine a convenient Place or Ward of Receipt and Entertainement in the said Hospitall called Christs Hospitall which may bee sufficient to receive and harbour the said forty children of the said new Royall foundačon which children and all other children to be taken in and to suttees in the said foundacon shall alsoe be supplied and mayntained from tyme to tyme and for ever with sufficient and convenient Diett Lodgeing Apparell and other Attendance and Accommodačon att the Costes and Charges of the said Governors and theire Successors untill the said Children shall attaine the age of sixteene yeares or be otherwise bound out Apprentices or removed as aforesaid And for the better effecting hereof the said Governors and theire Successors shall bee alsoe obliged from tyme to tyme and for ever at their costes and Charges to provide twenty Bedsteads fitted and furnished with decent and convenient Covering And alsoe to provide that the said fourty Children may bee attended and carefully looked after by some honest Widdow or elderly Mayden to be chosen for that purpose from tyme to tyme and to bee lodged in some convenient chamber adjoining to the lodging of the said Children And to bee further rewarded for her care and paines herein with such yearely Stipend and Wages as the said Governors and theire Successors shall thinke fitt And to this further intent and purpose That the said Governors and theire Successors shall bee alsoe obliged at theire owne Costs and Charges to provide and ordaine a convenient place or Mansion within the said Hospitall called Christs Hospitall for the Schoole Master of the said Mathematicall Schoole for the tyme being to dwell in And alsoe a convenient place or roome to serve for a schoole wherein the said children may be instructed in the Mathematiques as aforesaid And shall alsoe from tyme to tyme and for ever allow unto the saide Mathematicall Schoole Master for the tyme being such yearly sallary and stipend as they the said Governors and theire Successors shall think fitt and may bee a sufficient encouragement to the said schoolemaster to take paines in the instruccon and education of the said children And shall alsoe from tyme to tyme provide at their Costs and Charges such Bookes Globles Mapps and other Mathematicall instruments as shall be found necessary for the better instrucčon of the said children in Arithmatique and in the Art of Navigation AND MOREOVER We doe will and ordayne and by these presents doe graunt unto the said Governors and their Successors full power and authority from tyme to tyme to make constitute and appoint such Lawes Orders and Ordinances for the better Regulation and government of the said Mathematicall Schoole and of the Masters and Scholers therein being as they in their discrečons shall thinke fitt and the said lawes Orders and Ordinances or any of them from tyme to tyme to alter change make voyd or otherwise to explayne or amende as they shall finde convenient Which Lawes Orders and Ordinances WE WILL and require the said Master and Scholers for the

tyme being and all others whome itt may concerne duely to observe and keepe at theire perrill And if any of the said Children of the New Royall Foundačon shall att any tyme hereafter att theire ages of sixteene yeares or before they attaine that age in the judgement of the Master of the Trinity House for the tyme being bee thought so sufficiently instructed in the Theory of the art of Navigation that they may bee fitt and capable to bee further entred into the Practice of itt And thereupon wee our heires or successors shall thinke fitt to take such Childe or Children and to binde them out to serve as Apprentices for seaven yeares to any of the Commanders or Captains of any of our Shipps Or if any other well disposed person shall bee willing to binde out such Childe as an apprentice for seaven yeares to any able and well experienced Captayne or Comander of any other Shipp Or if any such able and well experienced Captayne or Comander shall bee willing freely to take such child as an apprentice for seaven yeares then and in every such case the said Governors and theire Successors shall bee obliged att their owne Costs and Charges to fitt out and furnish such Childe and Children with one compleate new Suite of Apparrell fitt for Sea Service AND as often as any of the children of the said New Royall Foundačon shall happen to dye or bee soe placed out or removed as aforesaid the said Governors and theire Successors shall take care that the said number of forty bee filled up from tyme to tyme with such other poore Boyes to be taken out of the whole number of Blew Coated Boys within the said Hospitall called Christs Hospitall as by theire competent skill in Grammer and Arithmatique to the Rule of Three shall bee qualified to succeed and to enter into the said Mathematicall Schoole and to weare the Badges and Cognizances of the Children of the New Royall Foundačon which wee intend shall have contynuance for ever And to the end a strict account may bee taken of the due execution of our intents and purposes herein before declared And that all negligence and remissenesse herein may be avoyded as much as is possible the said Governors and theire successors shall bee obliged twice every yeare att the least to cause a visitation to bee made of thee said Mathematicall schoole by some person well skilled and experienced in such parts of the Mathematiques as are there taught and the Schollers therein to be examined touching theire proficiency And if any want of skill or care shall bee found in the Master or any want of 'capacity or industry in the Schollars such Master and such Schollars shall and may from tyme to tyme bee removed and others placed in theire roomes as often as the said Governors and theire Successors shall thinke fitt And that the New Royall Foundačon herein layd and the charity intended may have a more perfect and sure establishment to perpetuity WE HAVE of our more especiall grace certaine knowledge and mere močon given and graunted and by these presents for us our heirs and successors Doe give and graunt unto the said Mayor Comonalty and Citizens

of London Governors of the Possessions Revenues and goods of the Hospitalls of Edward King of England the Sixth of Christ Bridewell and Saint Thomas the Apostle and theire Successors that itt shall and may bee lawfull to and for the said Governors and theire Successors from tyme to tyme to lay out and expend the severall sumes of money which they shall receive by vertue of these presents in the purchase of lands and tenements in fee simple to them and theire successors and to hold the same lands and tenements soe purchased unto them and theire Successors Charged neverthelesse with the performance of the charitable uses and intents aforesaid And alsoe to purchase any other lands tenements or hereditaments not exceeding the yearely value of one Thousand pounds per anñm of whomsoever they bee holden and the same to hold and enjoy to them and theire successors without any hindrance or molestačon by us our heires or successors or by any other person or persons whatsoever The Statute forbidding to alien lands in Mortmayne and any other law Statute Ordinance Restricčon or provision to the contrary hereof in anywise notwithstanding IN VIRTUE whereof we have caused these our Letters to bee made Pattentes WITNES our selfe at Westminster the nynteenth day of August in the five and twentieth yeare of oure Raigne

By Writt of Privy Seale

PIGOTT.

The Latin Charter, which is merely an echo of the Letters Patent, is also among the Archives of the Hospital.

No. VIII.

AN ACT (22 Geo. III. c. 77) TO RENDER VALID AND EFFECTUAL CER

TAIN ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF LONDON AND THE GOVERNORS OF THE FOUR ROYAL HOSPITALS. 1782.

WHEREAS divers Disputes and Differences have arisen between the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, Governors of the Possessions, Revenues, and Goods of the Hospitals of Edward King of England the Sixth, of Christ, Bridewell, and Saint Thomas the Apostle; and of the Hospitals of Henry the Eighth King of England, called The House of the Poor, in West Smithfield, near London; and of the House and Hospital called Bethelem, and the Presidents, Treasurers, and Acting Governors of the said several Hospitals, touching their respective Rights, Powers, and Privileges, in the Ordering, Management, Government, and Disposition of the said Hospitals, and the Estates, Possessions, and Revenues thereof:

AND WHEREAS several Persons, deputed by the said Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, have had several Meetings with Persons deputed by the said Presidents, Treasurers, and Acting Governors, for the Purpose of settling and terminating the several Matters in Dispute between them: And in consequence of such Meetings, and of the Resolutions of a Court of Common Council of the City of London, and also of General Courts held for the said respective Hospitals, the said Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens, and the said Presidents, Treasurers, and Acting Governors, have respectively entered into and executed an Agreement in the Words, or to the Purport and Effect following: (that is to say)

ARTICLES of AGREEMENT made, concluded, and agreed upon, 'between the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, 'Governors of the Possessions, Revenues, and Goods of the Hospitals of 'Edward King of England the Sixth, of Christ, Bridewell, and Saint 'Thomas the Apostle, by virtue of an Order or Resolution of a Court of